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Comment by ko27

> Latin 1 standard is still in widespread inside some systems (such as browsers)

That doesn't seem to be correct. UTF-8 is used by 98% of all the websites. I am not sure if it's even worth the trouble for libraries to implement this algorithm, since Latin-1 encoding is being phased out.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/en-utf8

parent ko27 3 years ago

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